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At the new large-scale vaccination site at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Monday, Arizona officials performed vaccinations on a group of educators and law enforcement, members of the new 1B vaccination eligibility phase. The site will open at midnight July 12 and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by appointment.

ASU's fall semester handling the coronavirus reflected much of what the state went through in the past five months.

Polly Wiessner, a professor in ASU’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, recently analyzed more than 300 village court sessions in Enga, Papua New Guinea, focusing on how the restorative justice system adapts to changing cultural norms. These norms have been influenced by the adoption of new technologies such as mobile phones, weapons, cash and motor vehicles.

The world’s oldest stone tool used for “delicate” abrading work was found close to Haifa, Israel, and dates back approximately 350,000 years. This is pretty significant as it dates back about 150,000 years earlier than when those types of tools were previously thought to have existed. According to the University of Haifa research team, the dolomite cobble, which was discovered in the Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel, was believed to have been used to wear down materials (most probably soft mate...

No. 21 Sun Devil Gymnastics will hold their annual Maroon and Gold intrasquad scrimmage on Wednesday, December 30, giving the team a chance to compete in its first full meet at Desert Financial Arena

2020-12-27 15:05:55 GMT2020-12-27 23:05:55(Beijing Time) Xinhua English JERUSALEM, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 350,000-year-old tool that was used for grinding food and other materials, University of Haifa (UH) in northern Israel said on Sunday. The tool, a rounded dolomite pebble, was found by UH researchers in a prehistoric cave on Mount Carmel near the city of Haifa. In their study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the researchers found mic...

An attempt to replicate a human migration from Taiwan to Yonagunijima island in Okinawa Prefecture showed that a dugout canoe can cross the Kuroshio Current. (Provided by the Holistic Reenactment Project of the Voyage 30,000 Years Ago) The ancestors of Japanese who settled in the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago were likely “explorers” from Taiwan who had a clear destination in mind, a group of researchers said. One generally accepted theory has been that the first inhabitants landed o...

  Alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou Is Awarded Germany’s Highest Scientific Prize, for her Breakthrough Findings on Human Evolution Graduate Center alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou (Ph.D. ’01, Anthropology) (known professionally as Katerina Harvati) was one of 10 scientists awarded a 2021 Leibniz Prize from the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), considered the most important research funding prize in Germany. The award, wh...

Leibniz Prizes 2021: DFG awards four female and six male researchers The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) today awarded the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to four female and six male researchers. They had previously been selected from 131 nominees by the selection committee responsible. Of the ten prizewinners, there are two each from...

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2020-12-22 09:43 Share CLOSE Bones recovered from one of the worlds most significant fossil sites have started a debate over whether some of the earliest human ancestors may have hibernated to survive harsh winters. In this undated image released by the Atapuerca Research Team (EIA) on March 26, 2008, a small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is seen. [Photo/Agencies] ...